Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.9 times smaller than Algeria.
Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 51.18% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (13.3 million more people live in South Africa).
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